JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A nonprofit created explicitly to support the agenda of Gov. Eric Greitens attacked Sen. Rob Schaaf Thursday evening by tweeting his private, personal cell phone number and promoting the tweet.

A New Missouri, Inc.’s Twitter account used a promoted tweet, classifying it as an ad, which means they weren’t technically “tweeted” but it still appears in that format.

A web page on the nonprofit’s website also listed Schaaf’s private phone number as captured with the screenshot below. The Missouri Times has edited out Schaaf’s phone number and neglected to link to the web page and tweet, to avoid contributing to potential doxing.

An edited screenshot of the New Missouri web page attacking Schaaf taken April 21 at 10:45 a.m.The tweet from A New Missouri Inc. with phone numbers removed.

“The senator from the St. Joe district, the Schaaf district, has the companion bill,” Kolkmeyer said while speaking on the House floor Thursday afternoon. “Mr. Speaker, with everything going on in the Senate today and this week, why are we helping forward anything on the Senator from St. Joe’s agenda?”

The connection between the nonprofit’s allegation Schaaf is working with liberals is not entirely clear. Democrats are set to filibuster and have filibustered the circuit breaker tax credit cut, but Schaaf is running a parallel and unrelated filibuster not pertaining to that credit. Republican Sens. Gary Romine and Doug Libla, who are not liberal, have also taken the floor for periods at a time to stop a ratemaking bill that would make changes to Missouri’s utility companies.

The frustration boiled over at the end of Thursday’s session when Sen. Caleb Rowden mentioned several perceived ethical dilemmas of Schaaf’s, such as Schaaf’s renting of a room in Jefferson City from a lobbyist that represents a company Schaaf serves on the board of. Schaaf and Rowden got into a heated argument, and the Senate came to an abrupt end for the week, even though many senators had believed the Senate would convene Friday.

The move by the nonprofit is yet another wrinkle from the governor’s office – or those close to him – in his relationship with the General Assembly, especially the Senate. Early in the 2017 session, Greitens personally attempted to whip votes for a resolution to deny pay raises for legislators. Several legislators felt he attempted to intimidate them into voting a certain way.

Greitens also ruffled feathers when he unilaterally created a paid family leave policy for some members of the executive branch. The policy, estimated to cost taxpayers $1.1 million per year, angered several members of the majority caucus enough that they delayed approving several gubernatorial appointees until Greitens personally spoke with them at a caucus. They felt left out of the decision-making process on a new program during a tight budget year, and the possibility other state employees would want such a plan as well, which would have a larger added cost.

It is unclear what the precise outcome of the ad will be, but this week was any indication, it will likely backfire spectacularly. Schaaf began his filibuster in Thursday’s afternoon session by dedicating nearly an hour of reading on the floor to Kolkmeyer.

“I’m saddened that the governor lacks the courage to confront me directly but rather relies on his dark money donors to impugn my stands for liberty and the downtrodden, and against corruption,” he said.